There's a new app for the iPad created by iPawn Games that strikes a balance between touchscreen games and traditional board games. Check it out here!
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Friday, November 4, 2011
Peter Jackson's Hobbit Production Video #4
It's just up on Facebook at the time I am writing this but Peter Jackson's Hobbit Production Video #4 will probably be on YouTube pretty soon too. He talks a lot about the 3D camera work and equipment and shows a lot of the behind ths scenes work going on in the studio before they head to New Zealand for location shooting. In the meantime, you can watch on Facebook here.
Update: Here's the YouTube version . . .
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Starship Trooper Overview from tetsubo57
YouTuber tetsubo57 gives a nice overview of Mongoose Publishing's Starship Troopers RPG. As a Heinlein fan, I was . . . Wait, no spoilers! Enjoy!
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Gaming Atmosphere through Lighting
Samwise7RPG of YouTube fame has created a new video on lighting effects that is well worth watching. He also discusses the use of it for creating videos. Enjoy!
Monday, October 31, 2011
Model Castle Building
Here's a nifty little website with some baqsic information on the differences in castles over time. The owner also sells plans for how to build models of some of them. It's called Build Model Castles. Take a look!
Sunday, October 30, 2011
The Infamous Tableau
I was recently feeling a little nostalgic as I was wondering about what happened to the old nine-vignette castle/dungeon display that once graced the hallowed halls of the old Dungeon Hobby Shop in Lake Geneva, WI, back in the Seventies. An article a couple of years ago on the WotC website showed a picture of the display and expressed not knowing what ever became it. I started a thread on the Gary Con boards to see if anyone had any inkling of its whereabouts, or some more detailed pictures of it, so we will see if anything comes of that. Here's the pic they showed on WotC -
My initial thought was, wouldn't this be great to have as a registration area display for Gary Con? I think it really evokes the feeling of nostalgia and much of what Gary Con embodies, aside from being just damned cool. The set up is nine vignettes or tableaus wherein an adventuring party is working their way from one room to the next, losing some party members along the way, and eventually fighting a demon (I recalled it as a dragon) in the final chamber. It really got a kid like me imagining all sorts of gaming situations to see such a display.
Anyway, late Saturday afternoon I was walking over to the grocery store to get a bag of apples and some other supplies when some yoots (That's Pecci-eze for "youths") rode their bikes past on the cross street dragging a moving box, one of those roughly four foot high, three by three cardboard cartons. As they did so, a couple of large pieces of styrofoam dropped out. One of the three noticed and yelled to the others, but they shrugged it off and continued on their way. I moved the pieces off to the side of the street so some unfortunate driver wouldn't run them over and also went on my way to the store. Of course, I kept thinking to myself that I might be able to use them for some project, being a tabletop gamer, but carrying them to the store and back wasn't a practical plan. While returning on my route I found they were still there and collected them. One was just a flat piece but the other was obviously made to anchor some objects within the box, measuring about 34" by 28", with two two-inch lips on opposite sides and nine holes, the center three with an eight-inch diameter while the remainder having a six-inch diameter.
Perhaps some of you can see where this is going? My thoughts are to create a somewhat scaled-down display inspired by that old TSR store diorama with windows into each location. It might be more ambitious than I have time to handle in the short term but this could certainly be a longer-range project worth my efforts. We will see.
(That's Mary Hendryx, of the Mary and Kevin Hendryx family,
former employees of TSR back in the day.)
My initial thought was, wouldn't this be great to have as a registration area display for Gary Con? I think it really evokes the feeling of nostalgia and much of what Gary Con embodies, aside from being just damned cool. The set up is nine vignettes or tableaus wherein an adventuring party is working their way from one room to the next, losing some party members along the way, and eventually fighting a demon (I recalled it as a dragon) in the final chamber. It really got a kid like me imagining all sorts of gaming situations to see such a display.
Anyway, late Saturday afternoon I was walking over to the grocery store to get a bag of apples and some other supplies when some yoots (That's Pecci-eze for "youths") rode their bikes past on the cross street dragging a moving box, one of those roughly four foot high, three by three cardboard cartons. As they did so, a couple of large pieces of styrofoam dropped out. One of the three noticed and yelled to the others, but they shrugged it off and continued on their way. I moved the pieces off to the side of the street so some unfortunate driver wouldn't run them over and also went on my way to the store. Of course, I kept thinking to myself that I might be able to use them for some project, being a tabletop gamer, but carrying them to the store and back wasn't a practical plan. While returning on my route I found they were still there and collected them. One was just a flat piece but the other was obviously made to anchor some objects within the box, measuring about 34" by 28", with two two-inch lips on opposite sides and nine holes, the center three with an eight-inch diameter while the remainder having a six-inch diameter.
Perhaps some of you can see where this is going? My thoughts are to create a somewhat scaled-down display inspired by that old TSR store diorama with windows into each location. It might be more ambitious than I have time to handle in the short term but this could certainly be a longer-range project worth my efforts. We will see.
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